Brunner's stick mantis
Brunner's stick mantis is a long, thin, green praying mantis that looks a lot like a blade of grass or a stick. It holds its spiky front legs ready to grab. It is a very special mantis, because all of them are girls. There are no boys at all.
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Fun facts
Mothers lay eggs without any father, which no other mantis is known to do.
The eggs are kept safe in a foamy egg case. All the babies come out through one pointy end of it.
Its wings are too short to fly with.
If something bothers it, it sways or goes stiff, pretending to be a stick.
It hunts at night in tall grass and is very hard to spot in the daytime.
Most asked questions about Brunner's stick mantis
?Are there male Brunner's mantises?
No. Every one is female, and they lay eggs without males.
?How big is Brunner's stick mantis?
It can grow to about 7.7 centimetres long.
?Can Brunner's stick mantis fly?
Probably not. Its wings are too small.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brunneria borealis
- Named by
- Scudder, 1896
- Group
- Mantises
- Family
- Mantidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Mantodea > Mantidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Brunner's mantis, Northern grass mantis
Where the facts come from
- Brunneria borealis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by YaroslavKuznetsov. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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